by samginko on Wed Mar 30, 2022 9:41 pm
During that time period, most of the European nations started limiting private ownership of "arms". We know this was in the minds of founding fathers from the correspondence among them. Owning arms of any type was limited to aristocrats. The idea was to give a common man same rights as those enjoyed by the wealthy and powerful in Europe.
I never saw 2A as anything to do with protecting your homestead. I always felt that 2A was about having the same rights as the government.